PARIS (AFP-EJP)---A Paris warehouse belonging to a kosher supermarket lay mostly ruined after what may have been an anti-Semitic attack the night before, French officials said Saturday.
Firefighters found an unused firebomb at the warehouse belonging to the André Kacher-Krief group in Montreuil, in Seine-Saint-Denis, where they battled a blaze for three hours Friday, police in the Parisian suburb said.
Video surveillance cameras showed someone setting fire to a truck as flames took over the stockrooms, said the local prefecture.
"We cannot exclude that this act is linked to international or anti-Semitic events," said the prefecture, adding that the attack could also have been carried out by a disgruntled former employee or client.
Home to Europe's biggest Muslim and Jewish populations, France recorded 66 anti-Semitic incidents during Israel's recentmilitary offensive in Gaza.
Three synagogues have been fire-bombed and vandals have daubed anti-Israeli graffiti on at least two more.
Vandals wrote "Israel Nazi" and other graffiti near a kosher restaurant in the southern city of Toulouse where a synagogue was attacked three weeks ago.
President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed "zero tolerance" for hate violence and warned against attempts to import the Arab-Israeli conflict in Gaza.